WordPress

In this tutorial, we're going to investigate authentication with the WordPress REST API. By default, the WordPress REST API has some open endpoints and some cookie authentication endpoints. The main r...

When working with the WordPress REST API you can get all the information back you need for a specific post. This data will consist of all the standard information such as:
Slug
Title
Content
Excerpt...

As the REST API is still relatively new there might be some endpoints that don't currently exist such as getting the post archives where you would normally use the function wp_get_archives. This funct...

When building your WordPress theme using the REST API one of the pages you might want to correct is the Post archives page that displays all the posts for a certain month. Using the WP_Query object yo...

As of 4.4 WordPress will automatically add the srcset attribute to the images in your content. The srcset attribute allows you to define different images to use at different viewport breakpoints.
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In this tutorial we're going to build a WordPress shortcode that will allow us to only show the posts of the logged in user. This is useful if you have a website which allows authors to post their own...

The WordPress REST API is a very exciting feature of WordPress, it was introduced into the core in version 4.7 and is getting a lot of attention from the developers to move this feature forward. If yo...

WordPress is the most popular CMS used on the internet and has been for some time. Because of popularity and being open source software there are 100s/1000s of people looking to improve the functional...

In this tutorial we're going to look into how you can clean up after your WordPress plugin when it's deactivated or uninstalled. This is an area of plugin development that is often overlooked or forgo...

In this tutorial we're going to create a way you can export all of your WordPress URLs into a CSV file. This is very important task to do when migrating a website as you'll be able to go through each...

Font awesome is a huge library of icons that uses fonts and CSS pseudo selectors to add these icons to your page. This technique means loading the icons is very fast and you have full control over th...

In this tutorial we're going to investigate how you can override a theme template files from your WordPress plugins. For this we're going to be using two filters:
theme_page_templates
template_inclu...

If you send emails from your WordPress site using the wp_mail() function you might of noticed that the email address and the email name is not being sent as you would expect it to. When an email is se...

When you go to a URL in WordPress it first needs to analyse this URL and decide what content it is going to show to the user. WordPress will take the requested URL and search the content for the corre...

Yesterday I asked this question on Twitter and was quite interesting to see the response to the question so I wanted to post it on here and open the discussion up to more people (other than those on T...